The nation’s top retailer is said to have agreed to near-prevailing-wage minimums for a new Chicago store, but labor leaders in Gotham scoff. ‘This is New York; this is not Chicago,’ a union official says.

While Senate Democratic leaders had discussed reducing the extension to November 30, a tax bill that Sen. Max Baucus unveiled last week omitted the subsidy, while a subsidy extension also is not in the latest version.

A jury found in a former Waffle House waitress’s favor on both a statutory sexual harassment claim under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act as well as common-law negligent supervision and retention claims.

The law, challenged by a restaurant trade association, has attracted national attention from employer groups that said if the law is allowed to stand, it would lead other cities and states to pass health care spending measures and result in multistate employers having to comply with a hodgepodge of requirements.